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Speaker 1: Onto your community News Now where we bring you hyperlocal

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Speaker 1: stories that matter. Joining us this morning is to Lani Magazi,

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Speaker 1: who is the editor at City Vision, and we are

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Speaker 1: talking about a fantastic initiative that they've thrown the spotlight

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Speaker 1: on in their reporting. And I don't know if I'm

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Speaker 1: saying this properly, but is it there in tiantiambo y

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Speaker 1: Sez where Teen Mom Organization. Good morning to Lani.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Saskia, and good morning listeners.

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Speaker 1: Did I say that?

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Speaker 2: Good one?

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Speaker 3: Great?

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Speaker 1: Great? Tell us all about this organization because it's just incredible.

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Speaker 1: It's basically teen moms coming together and actually helping each

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Speaker 1: other to rebuild their lives. Tell us more.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Saskia. This is an organization that works with

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Speaker 3: teen months, so effectively they're working with mothers between the ages.

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Speaker 2: Of fifteen and twenty two.

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Speaker 3: They operate in different communities such as Kylie Cher Philippi

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Speaker 3: Micher's playing Craft among other areas they recently started working

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Speaker 3: as well as in Cadera, so they The organization was

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Speaker 3: launched by donder Ss Baslo.

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Speaker 2: She's a qualified psychologist and at the time she worked for.

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Speaker 3: Famulous South Africa which is farmcer and she says to us.

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Speaker 3: You know, she met she saw all these young women,

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Speaker 3: these young ladies who felt pregnant and without any support.

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Speaker 3: And in most cases she would see them sitting on

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Speaker 3: the street corners and you know, really battling in her

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Speaker 3: immediate community. She would see these women straggling with support

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Speaker 3: and just didn't have anything. And in twenty nineteen, when

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Speaker 3: she visited a facility was as part of farmser. She's

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Speaker 3: visiting all these things to charge to women and find out,

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Speaker 3: you know, the struggles that they faced in their family.

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Speaker 3: So while visiting clinic in MIT's playing in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 3: she asked if she could really help and talk to

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Speaker 3: these young ladies to find out.

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Speaker 2: What the problems they face.

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Speaker 3: So she started there and and and yeah, from there,

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Speaker 3: basically the organization, which is this team in Chach Jumbo issues,

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Speaker 3: the Team Mom organization was established.

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Speaker 1: It's brilliant. What kind of support does the organization offer

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Speaker 1: two young mothers.

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Speaker 3: Look, what we're hearing is that most of these young mothers,

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Speaker 3: they basically face a lot of research from their from

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Speaker 3: their immediate families. In some instances, some of them are

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Speaker 3: being ridiculed for falling pregnant while they're young, and and

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Speaker 3: indeed they really struggle to build their lives from there.

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Speaker 3: So what this organization then does is that they give

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Speaker 3: them some lessons in terms of just how to reshape

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Speaker 3: their lives. So what they need to do. They bring

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Speaker 3: them so they've got clubs. They've got clubs in all

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Speaker 3: the areas they and so they bring them together under

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Speaker 3: one roof. They talk to them and they share their

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Speaker 3: pains basically to say, this is what I'm battling with.

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Speaker 3: So they are able to then relate and talk to

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Speaker 3: each other so effectively. They are then giving them skills

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Speaker 3: like training skills. They do some training which is stress management,

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Speaker 3: and then they give them emotional support. They've got counseling

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Speaker 3: for them. They also give them career guidance, basically introducing

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Speaker 3: them to careers that they can take despite the challenges

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Speaker 3: that they face.

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Speaker 2: And that is where one does in terms of just

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Speaker 2: developing and growing. These young mothers.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about some of the success

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Speaker 1: stories that you've heard in the time that they've been

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Speaker 1: in existence.

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Speaker 3: Now very interesting here, very very interesting, I must tell you.

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Speaker 2: We spoke to at least two.

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Speaker 3: Of these young mothers in firm to one of them,

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Speaker 3: if I me say, she gave birth in April, on

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Speaker 3: the twenty sixth of April, inform my mistake.

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Speaker 2: And in the twenty six of.

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Speaker 3: April, this woman told us that, you know, when she

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Speaker 3: fell pregnant, couldn't tell their family. She basically battled to

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Speaker 3: tell her family. She just couldn't. Eventually, at five months,

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Speaker 3: she wasn't able to tell her family. And it was

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Speaker 3: a downward struggle. She basically struggled from there. It was

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Speaker 3: it was, it was, it was really bad in her family,

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Speaker 3: and she wanted to abort the child. She just wanted

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Speaker 3: to abort and everything. But when she joined this team,

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Speaker 3: this organization, she was motivated and encouraged and and today

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Speaker 2: The child is thirteen.

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Speaker 3: Days old, if I'm not mistaken today.

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Speaker 2: And and the other one, the other one that.

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Speaker 3: We spoke to as well, she faced similar challenges. Today

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Speaker 3: she's the motivated. She goes and talk to other women

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Speaker 3: in that organization. And she was working and and her

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Speaker 3: her life also seemed to be on a downward spiral

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Speaker 3: when she fell pregnant. But now today she's there, she's

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Speaker 3: a motivator, she encourages other women, she goes and talk

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Speaker 3: to them in this loves I just.

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Speaker 1: I love this because it's life skills training. But more

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Speaker 1: than that, it's actually creating a community where they can

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Speaker 1: find each other and discuss and and share their challenges

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Speaker 1: and successes. And this is the kind of support that

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Speaker 1: you need because I mean, even just as a parent,

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Speaker 1: whether you're a young parent or an old parent, parenting

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Speaker 1: is difficult to navigate, so I can imagine with young

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Speaker 1: people it can be even more daunting. How can the

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Speaker 1: community get involved or support.

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Speaker 3: Yes, firstly this organization, I must say, maybe there's something

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Speaker 3: that was very very important. Most of these mothers, like

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Speaker 3: I said, they don't have the resources, they don't have

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Speaker 3: their unemployed. I mean you can imagine she told us

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Speaker 3: that one of these kids that felt pregnant that they

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Speaker 3: share to deal with is a twelve year old child.

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Speaker 3: So some of these people simply don't have the means.

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Speaker 3: So they accept previously loved clothes. If you've got a

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Speaker 3: child and the child has outgrown or the haze or

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Speaker 3: hair clothes, they.

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Speaker 2: Welcome all these kinds of clothes so you can go

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Speaker 2: and you hand them over to them.

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Speaker 3: And instead these mothers as well, if they get they

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Speaker 3: give them these clothes, and they when they when their

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Speaker 3: children outgrow their clothes, they hand them back so that

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Speaker 3: they can be.

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Speaker 2: Passed on to the other clothes, I mean to the

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Speaker 2: other children.

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Speaker 3: So they welcome any previously loved clothes from parents and

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Speaker 3: anybody that is willing to support. As I said, this

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Speaker 3: is ran from her own pocket. She's basically ran in

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Speaker 3: all of this initiative out of her own pocket. There's

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Speaker 3: no government support or any other support, so she relies

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Speaker 3: on handouts from people and from my own pocket.

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Speaker 2: So people can.

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Speaker 3: There is an email address if I can give, which

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Speaker 3: if I can give, is zero three yes, double zero

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Speaker 3: seven for six or nine perfect.

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Speaker 1: So if anybody wants to get involved in any kind

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Speaker 1: of way, because obviously, like you're saying, they're running this

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Speaker 1: out of their own resources and out of their own pockets,

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Speaker 1: and I would imagine it's not just things that they need,

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Speaker 1: but also if anybody has any sort of skills, if

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Speaker 1: somebody's out there with career guidance skills or CEV writing skills,

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Speaker 1: or even helping these young women dress for interviews. Somebody

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Speaker 1: imagine all of those things are super, super.

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Speaker 3: Important, absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much to Lani. I appreciate so much

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